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Scheduling backups on standalone Cisco Prime License Manager (PLM)

About a year ago, we did an upgrade on our standalone Cisco Prime License Manager (PLM). After the upgrade, the option to schedule backups via the GUI was no longer there. Initially, I was told by a Cisco TAC Engineer that scheduled backups were not possible. Turns out if you dig into the CLI guide, it is possible but took me a little bit of trial and error to get the syntax correct. Here is what I used…

Notes:

Sometimes you will still see Prime License Manager (PLM) referenced as Enterprise License Manager (ELM) which was the old name prior to Collaboration Systems Release 10.X.

The following examples use my own naming convention, but you’re welcome to use your own.

Note: Make sure your date is in the future. Before 11.X PLM/ELM used the feature name of “ELM”. If you upgrade to 11.X, you will need to setup your backup schedule to use the “CISCOPRIMELM” feature name.

Step 3 – Enable the backup schedule

utils disaster_recovery schedule { enable | disable }[schedulename]

Example:

utils disaster_recovery schedule enable Daily

Verify your backups are working

After your scheduled time has passed, you can verify the backups are running as intended.

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Author: Michael

I am a Private, Instrument Rated, pilot living in the Kansas City Metro area. I work as a Network Engineer supporting data and voice infrastructure components here in Kansas City. In my spare time I fly.
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